Oreste Cosimo in 2016 was chosen by Riccardo Muti for his Italian Opera Academy in Ravenna, and in the two-year period 2016/2017 he was a student at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, where he had the opportunity to study with Artists like Renato Bruson, Gregory Kunde, Luciana D’Intino, and Vincenzo Scalera and where he took part in productions of La traviata, Nabucco, and Hänsel und Gretel, working with some of the world’s leading conductors such as Antonio Pappano and Daniel Barenboim. During his time at the Accademia della Scala, he had the opportunity to flank Anna Netrebko as Alfredo during a rehearsal with the orchestra of La Traviata at La Scala, under the baton of Nello Santi.